Improvement in ring-and-traveler spinning-frames



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. DODGE, OFv BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN RING-AND-TRVELER SPINNING-FRAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. Al 3,] S7, dated June 21, 1864.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN O. DODGE, aresident of Brooklyn, of the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in SpinningiMechanism; and I do hereby declare the same to be full-y described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Flgure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a verticalsection, of a traveler-ring having niy invention, it being an improvement on that for which Letters Patent No. 8,683 were granted on the27th day of January, 1852, to my late son, George H. Dodge, such patent having been duly assigned to me, as will appear by the records of the United States Patent Office.

The invention of the said George H. Dodge consisted in a projection or standard erected on the ring-supporting plate or rail of the ring-andtraveler spinning-machine and close against and so as to extend both above and below the path of the traveler, the projection being arranged so near the ring as to enable the traveler while in motion not only to clear it, but to throw against it any waste or iilaments which may have accumulated on the traveler. The object ot' such invention was to detach the said waste o1' filaments from the traveler.

My invention is an improved mode of combining the wastedetacher or projection with the ring of the traveler-that is to say, instead of erecting such detacher and iixing it to the supporting plate or rail of the ring, whereby it shall remain on and be fixed to such plate or fail while the ring is removed irom the plate or rail, as well as while the ring is in place thereon, (the ring being usually supported within asocket or round hole formed or through the plate or rail,) I combiueitwith or fix it directly to the ring, so as to be movable with such ring from such plate or rail.

In the drawings, Ddenotes the ring; C, the traveler, and B the waste-detaclier or stand-k ard, the latter being represented as fastened to the circumference of the ring and below the flange or part a, on which the traveler is placed and runs. For this purpose I arrange the tenon a of the standard B so as to project from it horizontally, in order that such tenon may be inserted in a hole, b, made through the ring. The tenon may be iixed in i the ring-hole either by upsetting the inner end ot' the tenon or by means of solder applied thereto and to the ring.

It is not an uncommon occurrence for a detacher to become broken from the rail or bent or otherwise injured. Under such circumstances, when the waste-detacher is fastened to the ring-rail or supporter the operation of the whole spinning-machine will have to be arrested during the period which may be required to remove the injured detacher and either supplyits place with a new one or make the proper repair. But with the wastedetacher affixed directly to and supported by the ring the spinning-frame does not require stoppage for repair or replacement oit the detacher, as the ring ot' the broken or injured detacher can readily be lifted out of its place in the ring-rail, and another ring carrying'another detacher can beimmediately substituted for it, and this while the spinning-frame may be in action.

I do not herein claim the combination of a standard or waste'detacher with the ring and traveler in the manner represented and described in the said patent to which reference has heretofore been made.

What I do claim as my invention or improvement is- The connection ot' the waste-detacher with the ring so as to be attached to it, and with it be removable from the ring-rail or socketplate, the whole being substantially as specitied.

JOHN C. DODGE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. I?. HALE, J r. 

